Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
HERMANN HESSEThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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